Christmas Card 2018 Graphic Design

Challenge:Create Christmas card to send to freinds and business contacts alike.

Solution:Create collage from over 10 different images in photoshop and make them blend together, using the recurring character of the Itty Bitty Squirrel and elements from my work life, which first came about when making the first digital card in 2005.

Architectural Fairytales Concept Design and Idea

Solution:Came up with a concept idea for a story of a design movement and an idea taking hold on a greater scale, and asked writer/director Simran Sidhu to collaborate in producing the story: "Paint The World White" and illustrations to go with it, and use it as a creative ideas workshop for future projects as well.

Interesting fact:10 months after our story was submitted, dealing with themes of global warning, and the theory of painting the world white in order to keep temperatures down, the city of Los Angeles in the US is doing just that.See clip on CBS news

Unicorn Photoshop Collage Portrait

Challenge:Make personal birthday present for my 9 year old niece.

Solution:Take pictures of my niece and photograph her favorite street, skies and a rainbow in Copenhagen. Make collage in Photoshop based on her current obsession with unicorns adding another 7 images found online to the mix, and finally inserting her mom and myself cheering in the background.

MBYland Christmas Card Design

Challenge:Create Christmas card for MBYland, using a recent playground project design of theirs and people it with little “Christmas monsters”.

Solution:Sketch Christmas monsters all over a print of the project drawing, then pen draw all the monsters individually and scan the drawings using my phone. Then put the whole composition together in illustrator.

Filmdoo Poster Competition Entry

Challenge:Re-imagine posters for famous films for #FilmdooCreativty poster competition.

Solution:Working from imagery and colour suggessted in the title of “A Clockwork Orange”, attempting to convey dual meaning, and exploring the general feeling of being watched in “1984”, made collages using still photography, type and graphic elements.

Mågen / The Gull Character Illustration

Challenge:Create portrait of imaginary character, dreamed up as a running private joke between my cousin and I, as a personal birthday present.

Solution:Taking an outset in 18-19th century natural history illustrations of flowers and animals, I created a series of prints of “animal personalities”, emulating classical scientific style with accurate colour drawings and Latin descriptions of the portrayed subject, and gave it a subversive twist.

Skills and Tools:PhotoshopA sense of humour

Personal project:The Animal Personality Series2018

Character description on the graphic:The GullA surly animal with rebellious tendencies. The Gull is a well know kleptomaniac, unparalleled undercover agent and master of disguise. It has developed it’s own secret language: “Bab bab”, and if you are particularly lucky, you can catch a glimpse of it performing secret missions around Europe.

All For Love Graphic Design

Challenge:Make poster and theatre programme for "All For Love - A Tribute to Michael Jackson" dance show, and find images for on-stage back projection.

Solution:Do research into Micheal Jackson’s back catalogue, find iconic imagery, and make a selection of images for back projection on stage, then make graphic design and layout based on his silhouette and stage iconography and produce a poster and full theatre programme for the show.

The Cowpard Character Illustration

Challenge:Create portrait of imaginary character, dreamed up as a running private joke between my cousin and I, as a personal birthday present.

Solution:Taking an outset in 18-19th century natural history illustrations of flowers and animals, I created a series of prints of “animal personalities”, emulating classical scientific style with accurate colour drawings and Latin descriptions of the portrayed subject, and gave it a subversive twist.

Skills and Tools:PhotoshopImage researchA sense of humour

Personal project:The Animal Personality Series2011

Character description on the graphic:Panthera Bovis a.k.a. The CowpardThis rare animal hails from the outer moor in Jutland, and is know for its keen business sense and special talent for infiltration of Copenhagen affairs, due to its unsurpassed ability to sneak unnoticed around the capitol, and its extensive network of underground exile Jutlanders. The Cowpard is sought after for its fair coat with printed black spots, and can best be observed driving around in its private limousine while enjoying a glass of champagne in its natural element.

Economy Monster Drawing

Challenge:Find expression for the frustration of financial uncertainty when freelancing.

Solution:Draw the "Economy Moster": a surly creature who sits in the corner of your room and grows bigger or smaller in proportion to your level of financial worry. Then sketch a mental image of what he does and how to deal with him.

Skills & Tools:Sketchbook detailPencil drawing

Personal project:2004

Interesting fact:I subsequently found that many of my fellow freelancers know him well, and have had him visit their homes from time to time, and that they had a good laugh and found solace that they where not alone in this feeling and in seeing a somewhat humorous interpretation of their worries sketched out.

Nola Photoshop Collage

Challenge:Originally to make a baptism present, for my niece.

Solution:Starting with her baptism present, I subsequently made series of images from my niece's "secret" and real lives, using both fantastical and real life elements, emulating the way imagination, play, personality and everyday life blends together for a child.

Christmascards Graphic Design

Challenge:Create annual Christmas cards to send digitally to clients and business contacts in order to keep in touch.

Solution:Make one card a year, based on events or projects that took place in the last 12 months, and send it along with a personalized email. This tradition eventually triggered getting me invited to come and work in Australia on projects located in Bali and Java for 2 years.

Termination Poster Design

Challenge:Create poster for short film “ Termination”.

Solution:Put together several poster layouts, based on still images from the film, picked out by the director, which where themed on the freedom to choose and consequences of choices we create for ourselves.

Godzilla Photoshop Collage

Challenge:A shot from a run on a moody day in Fælledparken, Copenhagen turned out too good not to do something creative with it.

Solution:The foggy conditions seemed like the the perfect opportunity for great lumbering monsters to pass unnoticed through the city, so I added in Godzilla slowly making his way across the park, only briefly glimpsed by the odd, hapless jogger.